Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 16, 2009
March 15, 2009
March 17, 2009
Transcript:
carmen: ...and i think... winslow: time! carmen: what?!? winslow: your time's up. it's my turn to talk. carmen: but i wasn't done! dog: yes you were, carmen. carmen: the fairness doctrin?!?!? winslow: shhhhhhhhhhhh
Wait a minute. Commercial broadcasting is just that. Commercial. Listenership ought to dictate what is heard. That is what pays the bills for commercial broadcasters (I know, that is a pretty foreign concept these days). Now, if taxpayers are picking up a substantial part of a financially insolvent broadcaster’s budget, then that broadcaster should adhere to some sort of fairness doctrine. Like that’ll ever happen